United have reportedly had an £85million ($150 million) bid turned down by Juventus, with the Italian champions eager to hold on to the France star.

While Mourinho gave the strongest indication yet of United's interest in Pogba, the Portuguese manager made it clear that they are keeping all of their options open.

"We set four targets for us, we got three of them and we are going to get the fourth," Mourinho said, Hypervenpm Nerjar Jordan having brought in Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Eric Bailly.

"We established the profile of four players to improve the squad, to give us more options, especially adapted to my way of thinking about football.

"Everybody speaks about one, superfly cr7 blue but it wouldn't be a surprise for me if it is not him and it is another one because we went for profile.

"We have two more options what is the mercurial in front of us and we are going to close one."

On Pogba, the 53-year-old ace 16+ purecontrol red said: "I am not going to try to make you naive and believe superfly XI pink that we are not trying for one player.

"You have smoke, you have fire - you used to say something like that, right?

"First of all, we know the player belongs to another club, which is not a small club. It is also a big club, one with economic power to fight for their best players, to try and keep their best players.

"Apart from that, we know other clubs are also involved and for us it is not, 'are we going to win the race or lose the race?' It is not a race, it is just the market.

"When you go to the market, you have other options. You cannot focus on one, so we are in a very comfortable situation."